Microsoft’s Xbox One price-cut has seen the £399.99 Titanfall bundle selling like hotcakes – it’s sold out at GameStop UK – but Amazon UK is offering gamers a console, FIFA 14 and Ubisoft’s dire Fighter Within for the same price as an alternative.

A group of fighting game fans in Brighton have started fortnightly events, creating a local community for those nearby. Such small scenes exist across the country: they are more important than many realise.

WipEout developer Studio Liverpool has been closed and all of its projects cancelled, Sony has confirmed. Sony has also issued a statement explaining the outfit’s closure, and has cancelled all of the studio’s projects including – according to fresh rumours – a next-gen WipEout game for PS4.

PEGI ratings finally become law in the UK today, forcing parents to assume responsibility for their children’s gaming. Given how clueless even the most well-meaning mums and dads can be, says Patrick Garratt, it’s not a moment too soon.

As his company’s name suggests, nothing can halt Relentless Studios co-founder Andrew Eades. Despite cancelling his Develop presentation, the battler found time to talk to Lewie Procter about the shape of things to come.